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Top feedback summary for September 17
"2. A/B testing is confusing, please consider giving all users in the same channel equal access to the features, just like Google Chrome Canary, beta etc."
The worst part is when you have multiple installs on the same user account and you get a different set of features on each install! I have Open Tabs sync on two of my test systems but I still don't have it on my primary system -- all the same user account, all the same Edge Canary version. Argh!
seancorfield, HotCakeX, I understand the frustration, especially at a time when we are still rolling out new features fairly often. However, we need to be able to look at the statistics in as unbiased way as possible. We always want to balance the introduction of a new feature, with the continuing quality of the main browsing experience. Now that we have a Beta channel, you can set that as your main browser and have the same experience across all of your devices. The trade-off is that you won't see the latest features until they have made their way up into that branch. Thanks - Elliot
Elliot Kirk I appreciate the direct response to my complaint -- thank you. It's just very frustrating to have three Edge Canary installations on which to test features and have the feature only available on the two installations that I don't use anywhere near as much. It's especially frustrating that this is a synchronization feature so, of course, I want it on all my installations to test it as thoroughly as possible.
I don't want to have to switch to the Beta channel since the entire point of me using Canary is to test brand new features and provide early feedback and bug reports.
seancorfield, as I said I understand the frustration. I hit the same limitations when I try to reproduce issues that are reported on these forums. I can only restate that this is a temporary state, and soon we will be feature complete, and you will feel comfortable moving your main browsing to Beta or Stable and use Canary and Dev for checking in on the next thing. Thanks - Elliot
- I will gladly keep using Canary channel even after stable release, because i think it's the best way to help Edge browser development. it's just it would be more pleasant for us to have a little more control over these new features. Thanks
Thanks for the explanation, It's totally understandable, but can you do something so that the new features stop coming and going whenever user changes IP address with VPN?
in other words, instead of categorizing people based on their country and Internet IP address, tie it to a unique identifier in their browsers or Microsoft account.
HotCakeX I don't think they do it by country/IP -- I have four machines on my home network, all presenting the same IP address (and country) to the world. Three are running Canary with the same Microsoft account syncing, and only two of them have Open tabs sync available -- the third, my primary installation, does not have the feature. The fourth machine is running the Dev channel build and using a different Microsoft account (so it's not useful for testing sync features anyway).
There are of course other variables and identifiers they use to categorize users for the A/B testing scheme but i'm sure (due to various tests done by me and others) that one if them is based on IP/country.
how else would you explain this?
I go to my settings page and i see the new design. then i connect to my VPN (some other country in the world), after one minute i refresh the same settings page and it reverts back to the old design.
the same thing happened before with other features. such as share button.
